August 2010
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Discovering OERs through RSS and APIs
April 2010
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Presentation from CetisROW
Repositories and the Open Web: Reflections from the Core-Materials and OER Pilot Projects
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Position Paper for CETIS: Repositories and the...
This blog post is a position paper for the CETIS: Repositories and the Open Web meeting on the 19th April 2010. See http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/cetisrow for more details.
I’ve worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Computer Based Learning since January 2006 and have been involved with many projects related to the shareability of teaching and learning resources. I’m currently...
November 2009
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Journal TOCs Presentation at EUROCRIS →
Journal TOCs Presentation at EUROCRIS
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October 2009
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Recommendations on RSS Feeds for Scholarly... →
As part of the ticTOCs project I contributed to writing Recommendations on RSS Feeds for Scholarly Publishers. The guidelines have now been published. It is expected that industry wide adoption of these best practices will help drive more traffic to publisher web sites.
July 2009
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Improving Your Online Presence - a Netskills...
I recently attended a two day Netskills workshop on “Improving Your Online Presence” at the Hilton Hotel, Edinburgh on the 1st and 2nd of July 2009. I thought this workshop would be especially useful to the work I’m currently doing for the two #UKOER projects I’m currently involved with (one of the key factors of Open Educational Resources is that they should be easily...
June 2009
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“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”
– Clay Shirky http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/
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Project kicks off « Bayesian Feed Filter →
The Bayesian Feed Filtering project will be trying to identify those articles that are of interest to specific researchers from a set of RSS feeds of Journal Tables of Content by applying the same approach that is used to filter out junk emails. We had the first project meeting this afternoon, though we’ve each done a little bit of work in the last week or two. We went over our plans for the two...
API Demo →
This is a demo using the Flickr API and RSS from YouTube and SlideShare to display all content added by a particular user. It shows some of the detailed information that can be pulled in from these external sites which may be useful to UKOER projects.
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Yahoo Pipes Demonstration →
This is an example of using Yahoo Pipes to aggregate content from sites such as SlideShare, Flickr and YouTube with a particular tag and provide a search across items with those tag. Try searching for keywords such as Talat, Engineering, Spherulite, etc. This could be relevant to UKOER projects wanting to aggregate and search across content distributed across various platforms.
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Current Projects
Here is a summary of the four different projects I am working on at the moment:
Technical input into two projects, one for Engineering the other for Materials Science, both creating Open Educational Resources (OERs). These projects are part of a £5.2M HEFCE initiative promoting the release of OERs. Two JISC Funded Rapid Innovation Projects: One to develop and investigate the performance of a tool...
May 2009
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OER Programme Myths →
Interesting and useful blog post by Lorna Campbell from JISC Cetis on some myths about the OER programme.
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Engineering Subject Centre secures £0.25M funding... →
Press release for new project I’m working on: Open Educational Resources Pilot.
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RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the... →
Article written for FUMSI in October 2008.
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Transforming Current Awareness Through RSS -... →
This paper, presented at ELAG09 looks at the current situation with respect to RSS and then reports upon the findings of the ticTOCs and Gold Dust projects. We will look at the lessons learnt from developing the ticTOCs service, and also report on two iterations of the Gold Dust development and use cycles. We will deliver an appraisal of the effectiveness of the raft of techniques being employed...
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Transforming Current Awareness Through RSS -...
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ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service →
I worked as a project officer on the JISC funded ticTOCs project which set up a pilot journal tables of contents service which aggregates RSS feeds from over 12000 journals, published by over 430 small, medium and large publishers.
My Work Blog
I have worked at the Institute for Computer Based Learning for three and a half years now so it is probably about time I started a work blog. The first few posts will probably be a catch up of things I have been working on recently. I have interests in the sharing of computer based learning resources, but have also worked on projects that investigate current awareness services for researchers.